Have an Ownership Coach in the room with you.
The Boardroom puts you inside a complete operating environment for owning a business. The methodology, the community, the experts, the AI Vault, the rhythm, the room of peers.
A room is not the same as a person whose only job is your business.
The Coaching tier is the Boardroom plus your Ownership Coach. A coach who knows your numbers, your team, your goals, your constraints, your blind spots. A coach who has been the owner in the seat you are sitting in right now. A coach who shows up alongside you on the decisions that actually move the business.
Here’s where you are in the iBD path:
What the Coaching tier is
The Coaching tier is the premium membership in the iBD ecosystem. $5,000 per month. Six-month minimum, then month-to-month.
It is not a separate program. It is the Boardroom layer (everything described on the Boardroom page) plus a dedicated Ownership Coach who works with you inside your ownership rhythm.
$2,500 of the $5,000 is the Boardroom layer. $2,500 is the Ownership Coach. You get all of the Boardroom (the seven components) and you get the coach on top of it.
Who your Ownership Coach is
The Ownership Coach is not a generic business coach.
They have built a business, scaled it, made the big decisions, taken the exit. They have been the owner who could not sleep at 3 a.m. wondering if payroll would clear. They have made the hire that did not work. They have lived the cycle and they have the scars to prove it.
They think about your business as an investment. Capital allocation. Valuation. The wealth math. The trade-offs between distributions and reinvestment, between growth and freedom.
They also understand operations and the emotion of owning a company, because they have been the operator and the owner at the same time. Both seats. Same person. That is the qualification.
The closest analogy in the corporate world is the operating partner that a PE-backed CEO has, the person above the CEO who has lived the cycle and holds the strategy with them. The difference: your Ownership Coach is yours, without the PE. No board fights. No fund’s return to defend. Their job is your business and your life as the owner.
Same coach for the life of the relationship. They carry your full context. You do not re-explain.
What your Ownership Coach does
Four cadences. Each one is structured. Each one has a job.
Monthly: the 1:1
Ninety minutes. Every month. One-on-one with your Ownership Coach.
The session is structured around your Owner’s Scorecard, your Roadmap, your 90-Day Game Plan, and whatever your current constraint is. Not ad hoc advice. Not generic coaching prompts. A governed application of the iBD Ownership OS™ to your specific situation, with someone who has the full context.
You arrive prepared. Your coach has reviewed your last transcript, your Game Plan updates, your Scorecard snapshot, and the exercises you finished since you last met. The session works the constraint that actually matters this month.
Quarterly: your Virtual Board Meeting
A half-day. Every quarter. Your Ownership Coach facilitates a virtual board meeting for your business.
Three acts. Act one: numbers review with your financial lead. Act two: your functional leaders present. Act three: decisions and the next 90-Day Game Plan. Your coach is the GP-level facilitator who keeps the meeting at the ownership altitude and refuses to let it slip back into operator-level conversation.
This is the Quarterly Boardroom Rhythm™ installed in Module 3 of the OS. Your coach facilitates it for the first year so you learn how it should run. Eventually you run it yourself with your coach in the room.
Annually: the budgeting process
Three to four sessions across the back half of the year. Your Ownership Coach leads the annual budgeting process.
North Star refreshed against the last twelve months. Value Growth Plan™ updated for the new year. Budget built against prior actuals. The next year’s 90-Day Game Plan cadence locked. You walk into January knowing what you are doing and why.
Always: on-demand access
Call, text, email. For the decisions that cannot wait until the next monthly.
The hire you have to make this week. The customer concentration call that just landed in your lap. The cash flow surprise that needs a real answer by Friday. The conversation with your partner that you have been carrying for a month and need to think through with someone who knows the whole picture.
Same-day response on real decisions. Not a billable service. Part of the $5,000.
What your Ownership Coach is not
Not the Monday Education lead. Ryan teaches Monday.
Not the Tuesday training lead. Ryan or a guest expert teaches Tuesday.
Not the financial model builder. Pat oversees the model. The iBD financial team handles the build.
Not the curriculum delivery. Ryan and Kim own that.
Your Ownership Coach is one thing: the GP-level partner inside your ownership rhythm who knows your full situation and helps you make the calls that determine where the business goes next.
Everything in the Boardroom is yours
You are a full Boardroom member.
Monday Open Office Hours with Ryan. Tuesday Guided Trainings (and your executives are welcome). The Mighty Networks community feed. Quarterly Virtual Workshops. The Annual Summit. The iBD AI Vault, with the Sunday release rhythm and the working operating system. The room of owner-operators running the same OS on the same cadence.
All of that is yours, included. Your Ownership Coach is the layer on top.
A note on the math
The Coaching tier is $5,000 per month. Six-month minimum. Then month-to-month.
$2,500 of that is the Boardroom layer. The same Boardroom a Boardroom-only member pays for. You get all of it.
$2,500 is the Ownership Coach premium. The premium is not for another functional leader. You probably already have a CFO or a fractional CFO. You may have a CRO. You may have a COO. They are doing their jobs. They each see a piece of the business.
The Ownership Coach is the only seat besides yours that holds all of it at once. Finance, revenue, operations, team, family, wealth, and the ownership goals underneath all of them. Your CFO does not see your wealth math. Your CRO does not see your family decision. Your COO does not see how the next hire affects your time. You see all of it, alone, every week.
The Ownership Coach sits in that seat with you. Not to replace your team. To help you hold the whole picture and stay aligned across all of it.
That is the premium. The clarity of one person who has the whole context, helping you make better trade-offs across every piece of your life as an owner.
Who this is for
- Blueprint graduates and current Boardroom members making high-stakes ownership decisions in the next twelve months (growth investments, key hires, compensation redesign, debt structure, partnership conversations, exit positioning).
- Owners who want a coach who carries their full context and can participate as a decision partner in real time.
- Owners who value full-context strategic partnership over generic advice or theoretical frameworks.
- Owners who are open to being challenged on their thinking and want a coach who will tell them the truth, not a coach who will agree with them.
- Owners who would be energizing to work with. (This filter goes both directions. The coach has to want the relationship as much as the owner does.)
Who this is not for
- Owners who have not completed the Blueprint. There is no path in that does not start with the Blueprint.
- Owners who want a coach to tell them what to do. The Ownership Coach is a partner, not an authority. The decisions stay yours.
- Owners who want generic business coaching that touches everything lightly. The Ownership Coach is structured around the iBD Ownership OS™. If you do not want to run that system, the relationship will not work.
- Owners running fewer than 12 months ahead of a real strategic decision. If your next major call is three years out, the Boardroom alone is the right tier.
How to get in
Start with the 90-Day Boardroom Blueprint™ →
Every Coaching tier client came through the Blueprint first. No exceptions.
If you are at your Blueprint Wrap Call in Week 13, your continuation decision is made there. Your Blueprint coach walks you through the three options.
If you are a current Boardroom member considering the upgrade, talk to your assigned Ownership Coach at your next session. They know your situation and can tell you whether the upgrade compounds the work you are already doing, or whether the Boardroom alone is the right fit for now.
Not sure where to begin? Take the Ownership Assessment. It is the front door for every iBD path.
One more thing
Most owners running businesses at $500K to $10M+ in EBITDA have no one above them. No board. No partner. No coach who knows the whole picture. They make the calls alone, every week, for years.
You do not have to do that anymore.
The Boardroom puts you inside the room.
The Coaching tier puts an Ownership Coach in the room with you.
This is where the decisions get easier, because you are no longer making them alone.